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I'm just going to be a numpty about all this and say that both of these people will be made to suffer by social media and I want absolutely zero to do with adding to their pain.

What, again?? Poor guy. Maybe give his management company a stern talking to or something? Because if they don't give him something new to do, they might as well cut and paste him in the next one.

At least two of the characters in this drama need restraining orders and he's one of them. He doesn't care so much about her as he cares that's he's being displaced by a *single father*.

This the first kdrama I've live watched in a long time and the closer it gets to the end, the more my stomach is knotting.I'm guessing we're closing in on an ending where our lovers have to be tortured before they're together, or someone has to die or something.

Drama hasn't ended yet and I'm already worried about the ending . . .

I know. More than one of us has complained about the same thing! So amateurish of the film makers, don't you think? When you start film production, the talent typically signs an agreement that they won't do something like shave their head or mess around with their appearance unless the script calls for it--because it costs a lot of money to fix continuity problems in post production, or reshoot scenes. So either GMM TV didn't give a shit, or the actress didn't give a shit, which i think is pretty offensive, when you get right down to it.

ps. I'll try not to write any more comments about it, but it's just so ridiculously annoying.

I liked "The Story of Ming Lan" more than most every other cdrama except "Story of Yanxi Palace". Neither of these dramas suffered from the faults that plague cdramas. Both raised the bar for other cdrama makers, which is an incredibly good thing. I really want cdramas to be better, and they can be, as "Ming Lan" and "Yanxi Palace" show.

I may need to watch each episode several dozen more times. So I can give this show the proper analysis it deserves. Yes. That's my reason. Uh huh.

This drama has been licensed by Viki. It's the first Thai drama I've seen Viki license in two or three years, so I'm hoping that Viki adds many more dramas from Thailand.

that title, tho

FFS. Liz's hair color AND length changes back and forth every scene, sometimes within the same episode. It's ridiculous. Does the film maker think their viewers are so stupid they won't notice? Was the film editor or continuity director completely stoned, or what? So annoying.

I like how this drama has started out: beautiful, sexual people who may or may not be trying to do good. I mean, aren't there enough romance dramas that are sugary-candy-perfect?

I wouldn't mind a remake. This is one of my favorite dramas, and I really like all of the actors (less so Ady An.) especially if a Chinese remake eliminated the very minor flaws of the first.

Which it wouldn't. We'd just get another version, with cheap CGI, a horrible sound track, dubbed actors voices and a terrible ending.

There are age gaps and then there's a 40 year age chasm, like this. Yikes.

I finished this yesterday, and I liked it. I didn't love it, but it had several charming moments. Still, it's a Chinese drama, so the usual things that make Chinese dramas frequently an annoying watch, this show had them.

The FL had the usual very. bad. hairstyling. And the footsteps of the characters were stupidly loud, the way they usually are in Chinese dramas. [The hell's the deal with that? Is it a cultural thing? Why are the sound effects for walking so horrendously bad in Chinese dramas? Just askin'.]

are you watching it raw? Do you mind saying where?

I only know what you know. I wish I knew, too.

For those who've asked or are concerned, NekoMeowMeow's Wordpress website is gone. She says this isn't due to CR problems, but something having to do with storage or bandwidth or some such (she can explain more fully.) She's looking for a new home and I'm sure that as soon as she finds it, she'll be resuming her current projects. You can find the site she's using to park her old stuff by Googling her.

I'm not qualified to speak for her, and I'm not doing that. I'm just saying what I know from my own research and concern.

Meanwhile, let's wish her the very best luck and feel grateful for all the subs she's given us already.

Aw, so much fun, this lakorn. I'm always happy when I see that Neko has subbed a new episode of this. Neko is a subbing goddess.

I wish the ML's lip gloss wasn't so prominent, but I think that pretty often when I'm watching kdramas, too.

I only have one friend I talk about my drama watching with. I don't even bother to mention it other people--not because I feel I have to defend it or explain, but because I just don't care what their opinions about it are.
One of the reasons I love watching Asian dramas is exactly because they're subtitled. I have a hard time watching English dramas now because I've got so used to reading as I watch that simple listening is not enough.
Also, as an English major in college, I love it that Asian languages are so syntactically different from English. I super appreciate it, that I need to bring a non-Western mindset to Asian dramas, and struggling to understand the difference makes my brain better.

Thanks for the hilarious article!

There seems to be a sort of rule that once a subber starts a drama, that's it: it's theirs, whether they ever finish it or not, so then a different subber never comes along and finishes a drama someone else started. No matter how much people wish it would be finished.
I'm always extremely grateful for the work subbers do, and would never take their work for granted, but a different side of my head--the one that's a jerk--just is extremely disappointed and annoyed when a subber quits half way.